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Born December 6, 1802 • Turin • Italy
Died March 29, 1870 (aged 67) • France
Subjects Of Study Mesopotamia • civilization
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Hormuzd Rassam
Assyriologist
Layard, drawing by G.F. Watts; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Sir Austen Henry Layard
British archaeologist
Leonard Woolley
Sir Leonard Woolley
British archaeologist
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Claude-Frédéric-Armand Schaeffer
French archaeologist
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Ernest de Sarzec
French archaeologist
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Marcel-Auguste Dieulafoy
French archaeologist
Schliemann, Heinrich
Heinrich Schliemann
German archaeologist
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John Garstang
British archaeologist
Dörpfeld, Wilhelm
Wilhelm Dörpfeld
German archaeologist
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Henri Frankfort
American archaeologist
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Paolo Orsi
Italian archaeologist
Mariette
Auguste Mariette
French archaeologist
Boucher de Perthes, Jacques
Jacques Boucher de Perthes
French archaeologist
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Pierre Montet
French Egyptologist
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André Parrot
French archaeologist
Sir Flinders Petrie, detail of an oil painting by George Frederic Watts, 1900; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
Sir Flinders Petrie
British archaeologist
Richard Leakey
Richard Leakey
Kenyan anthropologist, government official, and paleontologist
Louis S.B. Leakey
Louis Leakey
Kenyan archaeologist and anthropologist
Hiram Bingham
Hiram Bingham
American archaeologist and United States senator
Sir Arthur Evans
Sir Arthur Evans
British archaeologist